Be still my beating heart WTFers (This is what I’m calling my readers now by the way ;)) McG, Executive Producer of the television show, ‘Shadowhunters’ just dropped two tweets this morning that hinted that CLizzy (Clary/Isabelle), Climon (Clary/Simon), and Saphael (Simion/Raphael) might be a thing next season! McG not only said that (as if that wasn’t enough to send Fandom into a tailspin) that the writers might actually make Simon pansexual.

Believe me, I literally fell out of my chair when I saw the tweets on my Tumblr dash this morning. However, I’m still a bit cautious to hope that these tweets will actually pan out in season 2. I have been in fandom a very long time, and I have seen executive producers and show writers say that they are all here for their glbtq+ fanbase and their ships. And then once the show gets established they ditch their glbtq+ fanbase, and their ships in favor of shoving heterosexual relationships in our faces. *cough* Teen Wolf *cough*.

Another point of concern for me is that I’m seeing pictures of the Writers and the Executive Producers being all chummy with Cassandra Clare on twitter.

Cassandra Clare has proven over and over again to be a fan of faux diversity. Oh, she will gives us a bisexual or a gay character, but it doesn’t mean that she will give them any screentime. In the books, Magnus and Alec barely got any screentime at all. I really don’t want that type of mentality to leak into the show; especially with the booktubers and the book fans pressuring the show writers to follow the books more closely.

Another point of concern is how they are going to address Saphael in canon. I”m especially worried about how they are going to handle what happen to Raphael in the books. [Spoilers For The Books.] In the ‘City of Heavenly Fire’ Raphael actually dies.

Also, there is another element to the Saphael equation. In a tweet, Cassandra Clare actually stated that Raphael was aromatic asexual. Will the writers touch on Raphael’s sexuality at all during the series, or will they keep him as an allosexual?

All in all, everything is still up in the air. And like the rest of fandom, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that everything that McG has hinted about in these tweets will pan out in the end.

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When I'm not roasting Cassandra Clare, or her creations, I actually have a job as a Digital Artist. When I'm not working, I'm either reading books, or chasing around my nieces and nephews, and fangirling over my OTP's, and re-examining my life choices.